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15/12/2016

‘Arbitrary Killings, Sexual Violence’ Plague Central African Republic’ – UN

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Violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Central African Republic (CAR), which include arbitrary killings, sexual violence and inhuman treatment, continue to plague the country, according to a United Nations report published on 14 December 2016.

Displaced children seek safety with their families in a churchyard in Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic. Photo: UNICEF/Daniel Timme

During the period covered, which includes the final six months of the Transitional Government, the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) recorded 1,301 cases of human rights violations and abuses affecting at least 2,473 victims throughout the country, including 1,000 men, 261 women, 91 boys and 67 girls, with a further 808 unidentified adults and 246 victims whose age and gender could not be fully verified.

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15/12/2016

5% of All Oceans Now Protected – 2016 Set to Be the Hottest Year Ever

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14 December 2016 – Since April, an unprecedented 3.6 million square kilometres of ocean – an area larger than India – have been designated as marine protected areas (MPAs), meaning for the first time, more than 5% of the world’s oceans are now protected.

By absorbing much of the added heat trapped by atmospheric greenhouse gases, the oceans are delaying some of the impacts of climate change. Photo: WMO/Olga Khoroshunova

“The establishment of so many new protected areas is tremendous news and should give those fighting tirelessly to conserve the world’s oceans and seas an enormous sense of achievement,” announced Erik Solheim, head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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14/12/2016

UN Report Urges End to ‘Unimaginable Abuse’ of Migrants in Libya

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A joint report launched 13 December 2016 by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) citied “unimaginable” human rights violations and abuses of migrants in Libya as a result of the breakdown in the crisis-riven country’s justice system.

Migrants at a detention centre in the city of Zawiya, Libya. Photo: Mathieu Galtier/IRIN

“People smuggled or trafficked into Libya face torture, forced labour and sexual exploitation along the route, and many while held in arbitrary detention,” Martin Kobler, the Secretary General’s Special Representative for Libya and Head of UNSMIL in a news release.

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14/12/2016

New Operation Condor Files Show Terror, Torture in Argentina

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By teleSUR* 

12 December 2016 – According to the National Security Archive more files will be released as they are declassified even after Obama leaves office.
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**Map of the States that took part in Operation Condor. Green: main active members. Light green: less active members. Blue: United States (cooperation). | Author: Sannita | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

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14/12/2016

Four Myths about Brexit and Financial Services

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By Guy Sears*

14 December 2016 (openDemocracy)* – UK-based finance firms will need far more than just ‘passporting’ rights to keep up their operations in the EU after Brexit, and the government will likely want something in return.

HSBC London Håkan Dahlström/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by) | Source: opnDemocracy

The result of June’s referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU has exposed limits in assumptions and concepts that strategic planners at financial services (FS) firms – from banks and insurers to dealers and asset managers – must recognise.

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14/12/2016

Fidel’s Departure Shook Asia to the Core

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By Andre Vltchek* 

11 December, 2016 (RT)* – On November 30, I walked into the historic building housing the Cuban Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam. Several Vietnamese guards stood silently at the entrance. Flowers were everywhere and a big black photo of Comandante Fidel was facing a busy street.
Cuban Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam © Andre Vltchek
Cuban Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam © Andre Vltchek | Source: RT

I explained who I was, and an embassy official first let me into a courtyard decorated with more flowers and images, and later into a room with a beautiful book, into which I penned several sentences of grief, but also admiration and hope.

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14/12/2016

Walking Up a Tower — A Simple Conversation on God, Truth and Knowledge

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By Dr Ravi P Bhatia*

12 December 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – our men had to go to their office on the 20th floor of a tall tower in a big city. When they reached the staircase they were disappointed to see that both the elevators were out of order. What to do?

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Dr Ravi P Bhatia

They had to go to their office for some urgent work. One of the men said, ‘let us relate some stories or events in our lives and that way we will slowly climb up to our office’.

The other three agreed and it was decided that youngest of the four would start relating his story for the first 5 floors and the next older person the next five and so on.

The first man (let us call him A) said that we all need peace and happiness in our lives. The question is how should be obtain it?

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14/12/2016

“Our Forest Is Shedding Tears” – a Munduruku Woman Fights for Indigenous Rights

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By Vânia Alves*

13 December, 2016 (Greenpeace)* – On November 27, the Munduruku Indigenous People traveled from their home in the Amazon to Brazil’s capital to demand the official recognition of the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land on the Tapajós River. 

 Demarcation Demand for Munduruku Protest in Brasilia - Portrait of Maria Leusa Kabá Munduruku. 29 Nov, 2016. © Otávio Almeida / Greenpeace

The Brazilian government is planning a series of dams that would flood portions of the Amazon rainforest and threaten their way of life.

Maria Leusa Munduruku spoke with Vânia Alves from Greenpeace Brazil about the journey from her home to Brasília to demand protection of their traditional lands. Here is her story:

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14/12/2016

Malaria Remains ‘Acute Public Health Problem’ in Sub-Saharan Africa 

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13 December 2016 – Despite major progress in the fight against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains an acute public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 90 per cent of the world’s malaria cases, according to an annual flagship report by the World Health Organization (WHO).

A home-based caregiver in a village near Kayar, Senegal, provides basic healthcare services, including malaria treatment for patients living in areas where there are no healthcare facilities. Photo: The Global Fund/Nana Kofi Acquah

“We are definitely seeing progress,” said Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme, in a news release on the World Malaria Report 2016.

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14/12/2016

For South Asian Policy-Makers, Climate Migrants Still Invisible

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By Manipadma Jena*

NEW DELHI, Dec 13 2016 (IPS) – Tasura Begum straightens up from picking a bushel of green chilis and looks at the mighty Padma River flowing by, wondering whose life it ruined today.
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Flash floods carried away everything except the clothes on their backs. People take emergency food in plastic bags in a coastal village in India’s eastern state Odisha. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS

Flash floods carried away everything except the clothes on their backs. People take emergency food in plastic bags in a coastal village in India’s eastern state Odisha. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS

She remembers how she and her husband fretted about the river getting closer and closer to their thatched hut and tiny farm in Bangladesh’s Beparikandi village until, on that fateful day, they watched it engulf all their hopes and dreams.

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